brooding - Story 17050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of fresh-cut wood and something else, something metallic and sharp, like anger. Clara clutched her chest, feeling a constriction that made it difficult to breathe. The world seemed to be closing in on her.

She had been feeling uneasy. She was tired of the noise, the dust, the disruption. She felt like she was trapped in a cage. Now, she felt like she might break.

She leaned against the wall, her body trembling, and let out a sob. The walls were closing in, the noise becoming deafening, and she was alone.

Emotion: brooding

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.46 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.60

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion brooding. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 brooding stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the brooding emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the brooding vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.749
`😞`	0.329
`그의`	0.299
`un`	0.273
`但他`	0.270

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.917
`la`	-0.603
`a`	-0.369
`l`	-0.335
`her`	-0.330